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How is it that unpaid emergency and other non-elective medical bills can be reported to consumer credit rating agencies as unpaid debt? | Some have calle for categorizing this type of debt or not allowing it to hurt your credit. If you owe, you should pay, but op and others have great points you sign for an operation let's say and many times there is no way of knowing what the final total will be. I have unfortunately had several operations, stemming fro... |
What is the situation with the US, Israel, and Iran? Is Iran close to having nuclear weapons? | There was never any evidence of a nuclear weapons program in Iran, that was just more hype intended to justify a policy if imposing regime change there, just like "WMDS in Iraq" was a lie and pretext._URL_1_ _URL_5_ _URL_3_ _URL_2_ More than 40 nation on Earth have the *capability* to make nukes,_URL_0_ The reason they... |
I get the feeling that meats from fish & birds are generally more healthy than meats from mammals like pigs or cows. Is that even true and why? | Kind of but not really. There are really good nutrients in fish like omega acids, and it is typically leaner than most types of beef or pork. However, there can also be things you wouldn't want too much of like mercury. This is why balance is important. Also, different types of meat will have differing levels of fat, c... |
How are the black boxes in airplanes made so that they are indestructible? | You can armor a *piece* of an airplane well enough that it'll survive just about anything that it's going to encounter in a plane crash outside of hilariously unfortunate circumstances. If you try to armor an *airplane* well enough that it can survive those kinds of forces, what you have is no longer an airplane, more ... |
Why does the ISS have such a low orbit? | 1. Being lower/closer means its cheaper to send astronauts, food, science and fuel to. 2. Being lower/closer = communications delay is less, so you can actually almost have a real time conversation with the ISS. Especially critical since the station is controlled from the earth , so if something goes wrong, you want to... |
Why do people walk/run on the street when there is a sidewalk available? | The asphalt of the road is a lot less dense than the concrete of the sidewalk, making it less painful to run on!', "The roads are typically flatter and in better condition that sidewalks. Plus there aren't constant slanted driveway entrances to worry about. I understand what you're saying though! |
How do flat-earthers explain seasons? | The flat earth theory is that the sun is a giant spotlight being shined onto the earth in a focused beam. And that beam moves around the circular earth once every twenty-four hours. Throughout the year, the spotlight moves away from the North Pole and toward the "edge" which creates Winter at the polar region, and clos... |
Fossil fuels, I don't get it. | If you mean what they are? Dead dinosaurs and plants that were buried, decomposed and turned into oil which we refine into gas, kerosene, and other petroleum products. |
Can a sitting US President lose the party nomination during a presidential election? If so, what happens? Does the sitting president become a lame duck president? | Yes. In normal years, the incumbent president usually faces no serious challenger from within the party, and so wins the nomination without need for a primary campaign. In addition to tradition, having no challenger helps the party to save resources for the general election and limits potentially damaging infighting. I... |
Why/How did the practice of male circumcision survive, while female circumcision become extinct in U.S.A.? | No, Jews never circumcised girls, historically. Circumcising boys is a relatively new phenomenon in the US. It was largely encouraged by doctors as a way to prevent masturbation, which was regarded negatively beginning in the 19th century. It grew in popularity in the 20th century partly as a result of militarization--... |
Do any fossils still have original atoms from the organism remaining? Or is it EXCLUSIVELY new (sediment/rock) matter that has replaced it? | Yes, there have been original organic molecules isolated from dinosaur fossils. [Collagen was isolated from *T. rex* bones at the University of North Carolina], by dissolving the mineral matrix with acids that would not destroy the protein. It was described as very bird-like. The Black pigment in feathers, which makes ... |
Why do you get the chills when you have a fever? | Your body wants to raise its temperature to help fight the infection. To do so, it triggers a feeling of coldness , which triggers your muscles to shiver. As you shiver, your body generates more heat. So essentially the chills occur as part of the process where the brain signals to the body that more heat is needed.Son... |
Why do companies trademark simple words that other companies use anyway? | A trademark is more than just the words, it is the entire presentation of the logo. While other restaurants can still use the description of "Mild", they cannot use the specific font and color scheme of the trademarked packets. Other companies can call their products "cola" but they can't use the red and white curly fo... |
Why does my phone download 1 GB of data significantly faster than my PS4? | It could be an issue with the source of the download. It's immediately post-christmas, even without people deliberately attacking it, the PSN is quite overloaded right now. In two weeks, I bet the 335 MB download will take a dozen minutes, instead of two dozen hours.The PSN has always been terrible for download speeds.... |
When waking up with a dead arm, how is it possible that it's still a healthy limb? | A "dead arm" is due to nerve compression. Blood flow is not interrupted so the limb still gets nutrients.Because it hasn't been damaged. Nerves have just been turned off due to pressure being placed on them but they soon return to normal operation.Your getting on my nerves! |
Why do we sometimes think someone looks like a certain name? Such as "you look like a Vince", etc. | In psychology, there is something called "schemas". Schemas are an organization of thoughts and patterns of everything in life. It's like a collection of data that humans do. As we go through life, we collect people's faces, personalities, race, etc. and connect these traits to a name, and then place them into schemas.... |
Why Turkey don't want a Kurdish state | This thread doesn't exactly answer you're question, but it contains some relevant discussion on the topic: _URL_0_ |
why does the combination of water and sugar results into a sticky substance on surfaces? | Granuals are dry and don't stick to things. Add even a couple drops of water, and the granuals begin to dissolve. As the water is wiped up, or evaporates, most of what is left is the sticky sugar residue. Wet sugar is sticky.It is due to hydrogen bonding with water , wet sugar is sticky. When we touch wet sugar with ou... |
Might be a repost but - if heat denatures protein, why does over cooking meat make it tough and chewy | Here's a question for you. Can you rip the shirt you're wearing off of you? If you're wearing a cotton t-shirt, the answer is probably yes. The reason is that the shearing force relative to the fibrous density is high. Now imagine taking that same shirt and twisting it up before you try to rip it in two. It's significa... |
Why do people from the US say ass instead of arse? | It appears that the shift from arse to ass came about from a dialect shift in 1785 to 1860 which tended to remove the leading r from in front of an s . |
How do cloud-based storage services prevent loss of data? | Redundancy. If you pay enough, they can backup your files on multiple servers, simultaneously. If one server harddrive is badly damaged, they still have it on another one, with the exact same data. You can do this in your pc as well, its called a RAID array. . |
Why wasn't Martin Shkreli punished? | He did something immoral, but not illegal . There are not related ethics laws that prevent price hikes of drugs like he did. |
How was the first computer chip created with no computers to create it ? | They did it by hand. Specifically, they used sheets of [rubylith] to design the layout of the integrated circuit. The sheets were then photoreduced to the size required for the photolithography process. Because this was done by hand, occasional errors slipped in. I remember reading than an early intel IC only had 63 bi... |
How does Sweden get things done if they have 6 hour work days, 25 vacation days per year, etc? | It's been shown that the longer and harder someone is made to work, the less work they actually get *done,* because they get tired and work slower, get sick more easily, miss days, etc. If you let people rest more often and take time off, they become far more productive. |
If religion can't be the basis on laws, then why are some states banning abortion on religious grounds? | On the contrary, laws may absolutely be based on religion. In the United States, a law may not respect an establishment of religion nor impede the free exercise of religion. Religious beliefs often help shape a society's views on what is right and what is wrong. These morals eventually find themselves encoded into laws... |
Why do people have such a hard time holding still enough to balance on one foot or on a narrow surface? | Humans have a very high center of gravity which makes tipping over much easier. We also don't have tails, one of the most important features of animals who can maintain their balance . |
What's going on with the Russian Economy? | From what I hear, it's related to the falling gas prices. Basically, OPEC nations have been producing higher volumes of oil, purposefully driving the prices down, trying to price Russia out of the market since they're also a big oil exporter. |
how are there so many different languages and cultures so close together? | You might want to take this question to r/askhistory for a better answer, but I'd like to point out that France is separated from Italy and Spain by some fairly serious mountain ranges. These have always been pretty significant barriers to human travel. Also, they speak French in Belgium and Luxembourg. Furthermore, re... |
What did dinosaurs actually look and sound like? From what I understand, Jurassic Park is extremely misleading | There are two main things Jurassic Park gets wrong about dinosaurs . First, it makes them look like big reptiles, basically. The truth is they actually had a lot in common with birds as well, which means many of them would have had feathers, for example. The other thing it gets wrong is that it misnames many of the din... |
When snakes shed their skin, they have skin over their eyes? | Yes, this is known as the brille, or eye cap. The brille is essentially a piece of skin evolving from the upper and lower eyelid, that have fused together to form a protective layer over the snakes eye. When time comes to moult, this brille is removed with the skin , and the new layer of brille is already formed with t... |
Why socialised medicine is considered the 'holy grail' of healthcare? | Because human life should not be a profit vectorFirst off, the term "socialized medicine" was invented by US conservatives in the 1950s to scare people away from the nascent universal healthcare movement. By associating it with Scary, Evil Commies, they successfully managed to get the population to embrace the concept ... |
Explain me how a clock work in terms of it internal gears. | So first you need power. A spring, a weight, a motor etc. This tries to turn a gear but the gear has essentially a ratchet on it. This ratchet is attached to some timing mechanism such as a pendum or another motor on a timer circuit. This moves back and forth and allows the gear to move forward once a second we'll say.... |
How come flying pigs became the standard impossible thing? | "When pigs fly" is a figure of speech that started a long time ago and started appearing in pop culture references and started to spread from there. In the 1976 movie "The Eagle Has Landed" an Irish secret agent working for the Nazis replies to a German general speaking of Germany's shortly winning WWII "Pigs may fly, ... |
What are the squiggly lines you see when you close your eyes and what causes them? | Floaters are tiny pieces of the blood vessels that were in your eye as they developed when you were a fetus. There isn't really a good way for the body to remove them after the eye has been sealed shut, and no good reason to do so either, so they stay there pretty much forever. Most of the time they stay at the bottom ... |
Does leaning on elbows hurt shoulders in the long term? | You can do serious damage. For example by leaning on your elbow for prolonged periods you compress the ulnar nerve , which can lead to permanent degradation of the nerve over a long time. This would result in the loss of sensation and coordination in some fingers of the hand and eventually in a [disability called claw ... |
Are humans the only animals that consists of vegetarians/herbivores within an omnivorous species? | Pandas are either carnivores or omnivores technically , they eat bamboo more or less out of laziness. When really hungry and in the absence of bamboo they may get motivated enough to hunt again. One of our rescue pandas was found half starved and just about managing to eat by killing and eating local sheep. Probably a ... |
How can tiny bugs like gnats fly around my head while I'm smoking a cigarette and not immediately die of lung cancer? | Gnats don't have lungs, and even if they did, cancer might take twenty years or more to develop, and gnats don't live very long. If you tried lacing your cigarette with Raid, you might have more success. |
Why do so many Australians idolize Ned Kelly? | While he was a criminal, his story is much more in line with the likes of Robin Hood. Ned Kelly was a poor man who got the hell kicked out of him basically for being poor and decided to do something about it. The British dominated colonial government was basically just rich landowners beating the ever loving hell out o... |
why do our fingers randomly tingle sometimes? | That sounds like a possible nerve condition, and is not normal. Now I don't know if this is so serious that you need to run to the emergency room, but you might bring it up the next time you see your doctor. I know I had a friend in school who had a nerve condition, and it caused his fingers, and his toes to tingle per... |
Why are cities usually more left wing and rural areas usually more right wing? | 1. Age, more young people in cities 2. Collective resources, if you live in a country town you probably don't use the subway everyday. In a city you are absoletely dependent on a lot of collective things. 3. Age, rural areas have older people. 4. Education, education collarates with left wing views, universities tend t... |
who is Sally Yates and what was her hearing about? | Sally Yates was the acting attorney general. In December 2016, President Obama imposed sanctions on Russia. In January 2017, it came out that General Flynn made a phone call to the Russian ambassador the same day that Obama imposed sanctions. It would be really problematic if members of the Trump team were undermining ... |
How come there is no issue about the possession of Nuclear warheads by India and the fact that they never signed any nuclear proliferation treaties? | India had to have a nuclear weapons program because China had nuclear weapons and is known to have had proliferated its this technology to Pakistan which helped them go nuclear. Therefore, India's nuclear program is to act as a deterrent and it has a strict no first use policy against the use of nuclear weapons as well... |
Why doesn't the moon eventually collide with Earth or drift away? | It is very slowly drifting away at like 4mm per year or something. We can measure this with lasers and what is essentially a mirror that was placed on the surface. Edit sorry > "The Moon continues to spin away from the Earth, at the rate of 3.78cm per year, at about the same speed at which our fingernails grow." _URL_0... |
Can a basic right be superseded by another basic right? | Yes, a good example is the public's right to safety vs. a person's right to privacy. Generally in order to stop a person on the road a police officer has to have cause. AKA a traffic violation or an APB matching your car/person etc. However in the case of drunk driving checkpoints, the courts have generally ruled that ... |
What are those mysterious, white oval stickers, outlined in black, with 2-3 letters in a black font that I occassionally see on the back of cars? What do the letters mean? | Each one means something completely different. Think of them as the car equivalent of those T shirts that say things like RON & HERMOINE & HARRY & DUMBLEDORE they're just slightly obscure so that fellow fans will recognize it. MOST often they're colleges or city abbreviations. ATL for example but they've come to mean j... |
What stops pharmaceutical companies from slightly tweaking competitors medicines and selling them as their own? | Patent protection often extends to what are called biosimilars. As the name implies, these are tweaked versions of the same drugs. _URL_0_', "They're protected by patenting. You could sue a local company that tweaks, but it's much harder to control on the global market, where generics come out. I know less about the UK... |
Why is menthol "cold"? | The people saying it's because of evaporative cooling are wrong. Menthol's boiling point is 212 Celsius, much warmer than your body. Menthol isn't really cold, it just tricks your body into thinking it is. There's a type of nerve cell that responds to things like temperature, pressure, pH, etc. Some of these cells have... |
What is the purpose of snot and earwax, and how are they formed? | Earwax is to protect your inner ear from infection. So, unless you really have a ton of it, you should leave it there, as it acts as a barrier. Snot is used to carry germs and other unwanted such things outside of your body. This is why when you are sick, your nose is running like crazy, because the body sends the snot... |
What exactly makes a suspicious package "suspicious?" | Boxes sent through mail: Excessive tape, stains from liquids leaking inside, visible/exposed wiring, excessive postage, no return address, noise from inside package, no reason for recipient to be expecting delivery. Or, for example around the White House, any discarded package, box, or bag is deemed suspicious and a po... |
Why is DMT so life changing compared to other "drugs"? alternative question in comments | > not just some hallucination you get from acid or mushrooms. Ive had some very real epiphanies and profound thoughts on mushrooms. Ive had some stupid ideas that were silly the next day too, but don't brush off mushrooms power to have real effects on your outlook of life. > Are we making contact with a different unive... |
In html, what is the difference between a div id and a class | An id is a unique thing - an identifier for a specific object. A class is a name for multiple similar/identical objects. Imagine you create a long list of < person id="x" class="y" > tags. Values for id are social security numbers - values for class are "student |
When people refer to a 'housing bubble' or a 'student loan bubble', what does it mean and what are the implications? | What people have said is mostly complete, but to add some information about the "bursting bubble:" In 2008, when the housing bubble "burst", what happened was, mortgage companies were bundling thousands of mortgages, and selling them on the stock market. People could invest in these bundled mortgages. This was so profi... |
What are Omega 3, 6 and 9, and why are they good for you? | They are 3 different types of unsaturated fatty acids that you body needs to synthesize other types of fats. Fats are extremely important in your body. Not only are they used as an energy source, but all of the cell membranes of every cell in your body are composed of fats. Just for fun, the omega 3, 6, and 9 refer to ... |
How does Apple keep their products completely secret before they are announced? | They don't. The iPhone 6 was described in almost complete detail before it was debuted by Tim Cook. Apple employees are pretty good at keeping secrets but the Chinese workers that make them aren't.They make them sign nondisclosure agreements that will cause serious legal ramifications if they violate. |
structure of bacterial chromosomes? | So bacteria and other prokaryotes lack a nucleus. Instead of hanging out in a nucleus bound up in chromosomes, their DNA just exists as a single large coiled up circular strand. |
the term "fixed income" to mean "low income." | You could change jobs and get a higher salary. You could get promoted and get a higher salary. You could get a raise and get a higher salary. You could do exceptional work and get a bonus. Elderly people living on a fixed income don't have any of those options. They get X amount of money per year and that is it."Fixed ... |
Why is Scientology still considered a religion in the US and UK? | The US doesn't draw a distinction between a cult & a religion. Getting registered as a religion, for tax purposes, is about showing that you're not trying to defraud the government to dodge taxes. There's no effort to evaluate the validity of your beliefs. |
Why is the Aquatic Ape Theory so overlooked? | The biggest one is that it's not a scientific theory. A theory cannot simply explain existing features. It has to offer predictions on previously undiscovered features and then confirm whether these predictions are true or not. Many of the points you made have other explanations in conventional theories that actually h... |
How do coins in a coin pusher always pile up on the edge but never fall off? | There was a fantastic reply above, but one way to look at it is that you are pushing something into the middle of a pile. That pile will expand in all directions it can forwards, to the left, and to the right. Only one of those three sides is positive for you. There are a ton of factors which will influence how much go... |
What is the difference between the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA? | The Federal Bureau of Investigation is sort of like a police force on the federal level, they are able to look at and deal with interstate crimes that cross a multiple of jurisdictions. The Central Intelligence Agency is the US’s intelligence wing, our spies, they try to keep the government as informed, in the loop, an... |
Why was the 1st Iraq war so successful? | Assuming you mean "relative to the second one": The first war had very limited objectives. All the US did was push the Iraqi army out of Kuwait. The US, possessing by far the most powerful military force in the world, could do this quickly and easily. The second war involved two stages. The first, taking control of Bag... |
How come some dreams seem real and you can "feel" what's going on? | Because your brain tells you it's real. That's why "pinching yourself" doesn't work. Because when you pinch yourself in your dream, your brain also tells you that you had the appropriate reaction. Another example is the plot line of dreams. Usually they're crazy, and incoherent but you don't question it in your dream, ... |
What's the difference between consuming sugars and starch? | well, after eating starches your body brakes down the usable from the not usable , in this case the sugars will be extracted from the starch and the rest discarded , this process is called digestion and it takes time. if you ate straight sugars your body wouldn't need to brake down usable from not usable and it would b... |
How can clubs legally let women in for free but charge men for entry? | Basically, it's accepted in many areas because the intent isn't to punish men, but to encourage women to attend, something that men want the club to do. The idea behind it is to make a better time for men by having more women there, and it's better for women since they get in for free.You may be interested in the court... |
How does Rebar work in concrete? | Concrete is strong in compression, but weak in tension. Rebar is strong in tension. So combining the two you get the best of bothconcrete has low tensile strength. meaning it can crack "easily" when a load is on it. steal has a high tensile strength, it will bend and not break. adding rebar to the concrete increases th... |
Why are people so concerned with the chemical weapons in Syria? | Basically there is an agreement in place among countries that chemical weapons are not acceptable to use. If the world does not show Syria that they so not accept their use of these weapons, then who is to say others will not start using them as well? Think if it as of trying to maintain a standard of not using chemica... |
How do fetishes develop? | With me it just kind of happened. Mine is lactation. After the birth of our first two kids, via c-sections, I stayed away from the tits because I viewed them as needed for my child even though they were luscious and sexy as fuck to look at. After our third child, I decided to grab her tits while in a session of some ha... |
How do malls get cars inside to be shown off/won in the middle of the building? | They build the mall around them. Just kidding there's probably a big entrance which is also used for products", 'Usually the front door. Those sliding doors out front of various businesses can actually be pushed or pulled completely open from the hinges, and big buildings like malls tend to have really wide ones. They ... |
During the Cold War, nations changed their inventory of ordnance regularly, now they use weapons/vehicles/aircraft decades old. Why? | Most military equipment are built to strict standards, and with consistent maintenance, will make the equipment last longer, and in many cases, "If it aint broke, dont fix it". It is usually cheaper to use older equipment than it is to spend billions to trillions of dollars to research and design new equipment, Most of... |
alternating current versus direct current | Direct current has current flowing in one direction only, with a more or less constant voltage. Alternating current has current that flows in both directions alternately, and has a voltage that varies along a sine wave. We use AC because it's easier to generate using rotating machinery, because motors that use it are m... |
Why do white people generally have naturally straight hair and black people generally have naturally curly hair? | Structurally the shape of the hair is different. Straight hair has a roundish cross-section. Flatten it a bit and you get wavy hair. A bit more and you get curly hair. When it is nearly flattened you get the very tight curls. From an evolutionary standpoint the theory is that the tightly curled hair evolved to protect ... |
How are paedophiles convicted for crimes that occurred many decades before? What kind of evidence is presented? | 1)When evidence was gathered those many years ago, some testing methods hadn't even been discovered or created yet. Now that those certain tests *do* exist, the existing evidence can be tested. 2)Databases have grown as more criminals have been nabbed over the years.3)Other ways Source: lots of personal research |
Why is it customary to eat certain foods for breakfast, lunch and dinner? Why is a steak for breakfast considered strange? | Is it strange? I live about 40 miles west of Boston and have been up and down the east coast from Maine to Florida and have had steak and eggs from many diners in between. |
How is there enough physical space for neurons to make 1000's of connections with other neurons in the brain? | Somewhat too simple. Neurons can interact with multiple neurons but the "wires" are prevented from crossing by a sort of insulation that surrounds them, just like electrical wires. You're very right though, they're tiny. So you have an inordinate amount of these tiny, intricately connected cells that are prevented from... |
why do people turn down the radio when trying to locate an address driving (almost unknowingly) as if the reduction in sound helps to aid their vision? | It has little to do with vision, and more to do with concentration. Any stimulus that is bombarding you while you are trying to focus on a particular thing will hinder your ability to focus on said thing. So, in this case, turning down the music allows you to focus on finding the addressBecause loud noise is distractin... |
How come some people have it easier to wake up than others? | well, you'll never walk a mile in someone else shoes. It may just be a matter of will power. for some, they do what is required, others fight with themselves about it. Its only as hard as you convince yourself it is. If you were waking up to have sex with a supermodel or to go drive a ferrari, I bet you'd have no probl... |
Why is the pythagorus theory only a theory if a2 + b2 is always equal to c2? | It isn't a theory, it is a theorem, which is "a statement that has been proven on the basis of previously established statements" _URL_0_ It's true because of other things we know are true2 parts. If you want the tl;dr version, just read the second part. Part one: "Theory" does not, as many people believe, mean "guess"... |
Please explain to me (like I'm five) how the heck vinyl records and cassette tapes were used to make albums. | vinyl records were made with tiny grooves in them, the needle on turn tables fits into this groove and as the record spins, the needle follows the groove. The groove isn't perfectly curved though, and as the needle moves through the groove, it fluctuates This movement is then interpreted by the record player and conver... |
How do gas pumps know when to stop filling? | Inside of the pump handle looks like this: _URL_0_ When the liquid gasoline reaches the vacuum tube and it draws fluids in, the pump turns off. |
How does stereo sound make music so much more dynamic, other than just left right audio? | Your stereo software has a modern enhancement that's much less effective in mono because right+left hearing is important to locating a sound. Surround sound can be simulated in mono and stereo tracks. Your sense of sound direction is your brain acknowledging that sounds become shifted when they travel through your skul... |
Why are car shows like Top Gear allowed to showcase driving at extremely illegal speeds on public roads? | Well, most of the time, they are on closed tracks. The times that they aren't, most of the time, they have made prior arrangements with the local authorities to close off those parts of public roads to allow those very high speeds for the purposes of filming. The same thing is done with movies or TV shows. |
Why is condensation on a windshield in the morning so much harder than rain for the wipers to remove? | Couple different reasons 1) Dirt. Builds up on your windshield throughout the day. When it rains, since that's akin to flowing water, it quickly rinses away but when it mixes with a layer of condensation your wipers just smear it around. 2) The condensation will "reapply" itself until the conditions causing it are fixe... |
Healthcare laws in the U.S. Senate | Rising costs due to a combination of a loss of government subsidies and the ability for insurers to separate people into higher and lower risk pools. If people can't afford it, they will effectively lose coverage. |
why can cancer cells keep on dividing? | > Doesnt a normal cell die and stop dividing when the telomeres run out Not exactly. Fraying of telomeres can result in the cells stopping performing their function properly but that doesn't really stop cancer from being cancer; it could just be the difference between a tumor that creates a hormone or doesn't. Part of ... |
If you're knocked unconscious and thrown into a river, will you drown or will your bodies survival instincts kick in and wake you up? | Drown. If youre unconcious your body wouldnt know what was going on around you enough to wake you up. |
Why can the US not just create a system in which everyone gets their vote heard, and the we skip the delegate part? | primary elections are a party decision. candidate selection used to be closed off decisions decided by party insiders, they've opened up the process and have given the public a voice in the selection process, but still want to maintain some control of who's going to run on their ticket. as far as the electoral college ... |
Is Jewish an ethnicity, religion, or nationality? | It is both an ethnicity and a religion, but not a nationality. Nationality is the easy one, so let's get it out of the way: nationality is the nation that you come from. You can be Chinese, French, Spanish, or Israeli, but there's no country called Judea, so it's not a nationality. Since Israel is the Jewish state, I s... |
What is Wendler's 5/3/1 routine? | From the creator of the 5/3/1 program: > The 5/3/1 Program This is a very easy program to work with. The following is a general outline of the training I suggest. I’ll go into detail on each point in the chapters to follow. - You will train 2-4 days per week . - One day will be devoted to the standing military press, o... |
Where is the software located on a circuit board? | Software is stored in computer memory. Some memory is designed to last a long time like hard drives, solid state drives, CDs, magnetic tapes, floppy disks etc. And some memory requires power to stay active like RAM & nbsp; Software is a series of bits. A bit is anything that can be in one of two states. So RAM is a bun... |
How do ears 'pop'? Does it mean our ear drums are perforated? How does liquid build up behind the ear drum, can they go through the ear drum? | Do you mean like on an plane? This is caused by the pressure inside your ear being different from the pressure in the surrounding air. When you're on a plane or travelling to a higher altitude, the change in pressure is usually gradual, so you don't directly perceive the change in pressure. because the pressure on both... |
When I blow my mouth up; why does a small pocket of air open up near my jawbone causing severe pain. | Like blowing balloons and your jaw feels sore?Yeah, this happens to me too, I think it has something to do with air entering your salivary gland that is located behind/under your jaw muscle. You should try to avoid that not only because it hurts but the air may carry germs in to the gland which may result in an infecti... |
Why do some people love rollercoasters and others would rather die then (than? sorry, german) going on one? | I don't have an answer, but it's 'than' - 'then' indicates an order in time or logic, 'than' is a comparison. |
Reddit LOVES foxes, wolves, skunks, red pandas, otters, and quokkas. What steps have to be taken to domesticate these animals? | Selecting for reduction of agression/attachment to humans and time. There's a project in Russia domesticating foxes. You can actually buy one, I believe. _URL_0_ |
Why athletes in the same Olympic event don't use the exact same equipmrnt? | Whats most important to an athlete is being comfortable with their equipment that compliments their physique. A good example would be gloves in boxing. A knock out artist will usually wear harder gloves so they hit harder, Meanwhile a more defensive fighter will usually box with softer gloves to reduce the wear and tea... |
Why do I dream about people who I have never met before? | Let me try again . 1.) Your feelings or thoughts will determine what you dream about when dreaming starts These keys unlock doors. 2.) Your brain works like a recycle bin on your computer. It stores information until something is deemed more important, then replacing it if that happens. This is very important because e... |
The Golden Corral uproar. | The gist of it is that the workers at a location were using unsanitary practices to hide food that wouldn't pass inspection by the health department then returning it to the serving line after the inspectors left. It's really kind of stupid because they shouldn't have been using the bad food anyways and putting it near... |
Why do we (still) need toe nails? | It's like a vestigial thing leftover from back when we did need them. Basically, it doesn't hurt our odds for survival, so it just sticks around. |
How do non-radio objects (eg fans, bed frames) pick up and play AM signals? | They have metal parts in them that can act like an antenna. If exposed to a strong enough electromagnetic field, they'll begin to oscillate at whatever frequency that field's at. This is essentially how a crystal radio works. But you'd need to be really close to a really, really powerful transmitter to hear music on yo... |
How can it be said that Bill Clinton presided over 4 years with a surplus when the national debt increased every year he was President? | Because expenditure was less than revenue which is the definition of budget surplus. 1,721,728\t1,652,458\t69,270 1,827,452\t1,701,842\t125,610 2,025,191\t1,788,950\t236,241 1,991,082\t1,862,846\t128,236', "A Surplus means a budget surplus, which can be used to pay down debt, but rarely seems to actually be used for th... |
Why do spider’s legs curl up when they die? | Spider legs aren't extended with muscle, but rather something like hydraulic pressure. If the spider dies, the legs lose pressure and the natural position of the legs is curled. |
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